Nic Crane

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Nic Crane's articles on R, Apache Arrow, data engineering, open source, and AI-assisted development.

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Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go #GoLang #Programming #Developer
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Sep 27, 2026
Rapid Learning Skill for Code #AI #Coding #Learning
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Sep 23, 2026
My Strategies for Using AI to Contribute to Open Source #OpenSource #AI #DevTools
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Jun 19, 2026
Introduction to Parquet #DataEngineering #OpenSource #BigData
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Jun 1, 2026
How I Used Claude Code to Implement {dplyr} Functions in {arrow} #DataEngineering #AI #OpenSource
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Apr 9, 2026
LLM-Assisted Issue Triage for Open Source Maintainers #OpenSource #AI #DataEngineering
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Mar 6, 2026
AI Tooling and Open Source #OpenSource #AI #DataEngineering
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Jan 27, 2026
Using ChatGPT as a Code Tutor: A One-Hour Learning Experiment #AI #LLM #Education
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Aug 2, 2025
Iterating on an app to create social media posts generating package using {shiny} and {ellmer} #Rstats #AI #DataScience
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Feb 17, 2025
Generating social media posts to promote blog posts with {shiny} and {ellmer} #DataScience #AI #OpenSource
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Feb 14, 2025
Monitoring R Package Updates with Github Actions #Rstats #DevOps #Automation
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Dec 28, 2023
Debugging #DataEngineering #OpenSource #RD
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Oct 3, 2023
Three Goats in a Raincoat #RStats #DataScience #Humor
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Oct 2, 2023
Type inference in readr and arrow #DataEngineering #OpenSource #Programming
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Nov 21, 2022
Arrow New Feature Showcase: show_exec_plan() #DataEngineering #OpenSource #RStats
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Aug 25, 2022
Customising pkgdown with a version selector #Rstats #DataScience #OpenSource
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Apr 14, 2022
Error chaining #DataEngineering #RObservations #Programming
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Apr 8, 2022
Open Source Developer Apprenticeship - 9 months in #OpenSource #DataEngineering #CareerDevelopment
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Jan 23, 2022
R package documentation - what makes a good example? #Rstats #DataScience #Programming
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May 17, 2021
R package documentation - what makes a good example? #DataScience #RExamples #Programming
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May 17, 2021
My First Month at Ursa Computing #DataEngineering #OpenSource #Career
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May 12, 2021
Why is eval parse bad? #Programming #DataScience #OpenSource
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Apr 19, 2021
Three Valued Logic #Logic #DataScience #OpenSource
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Apr 16, 2021
Ten Steps to Becoming a Tidyverse Contributor #DataScience #OpenSource #RStats
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Nov 28, 2018
Scraping rstudio::conf 2018 Abstracts #DataScience #RStats #WebScraping
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Aug 21, 2018
Comparing R packages using packagemetrics #Rstats #DataScience #OpenSource
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Jul 30, 2018
Pop-up to confirm action in Shiny #DataScience #OpenSource #ShinyDev
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Aug 15, 2016
Getting started with Leaflet in Shiny - interactive map apps #DataViz #Rstats #ShinyDev
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Apr 27, 2016